Medication Management
The Surprising Hazards Associated with Pill Organizers and Medication Management
Posted on April 7th, by Mark Winter in Aging, Benefits of Home Care, Chronic Conditions, Family Caregivers, Health, Medical News, Medications, Napa Home Care Planning, North Bay Home Care, Senior Independence, Senior Medical Care. No Comments
Medication management using pill organizers isn’t as easy as you may think for seniors.
Older adults, on average, take as many as 15-18 different prescriptions each day, so it’s no surprise that so many seniors end up missing doses or taking incorrect doses of their medications. And there are serious health complications that can occur as a result of these medication errors. One solution is the pill organizer: such a basic idea to simply put the right medications into the right little boxes each day. However, there are surprising hazards of pill organizers that people don’t realize.
